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Updates, SALE, zine workshops in Blacktown…

Happy festive season, good people. I have just spent this rainy afternoon adding a few things to the catalogue – two issues of Telegram Ma’am (#20 and 22), the latest Disposable Camera (all about Melbourne this time, featuring Vanessa’s most ambitious mind map to date) and the truly epic 4 disc making of YOU DVD box set. You’ll find that last one on the ‘other things to buy’ page.

Meanwhile, I have been busy working on a new Take Care Zine Distro Zine/Newsletter. It’ll be out as soon as I can get to Officeworks – by the end of the week, hopefully. Within it you will find a round-up of the year 2011 from our perspective, perched up here in the not so mountainous Blue Mountains above venal old Sydney Town.

The more observant among you – or those that have cared enough to pay attention (don’t worry if you didn’t – I hardly remembered myself, and last year I totally forgot) will note that the 1st of January marks Take Care’s second anniversary. Two years! How come we haven’t taken over the world yet? Ah, who cares. Anyway, we thought we should actually acknowledge this important acheivement in some way, so we have decided to do this thing we’ve heard rumours that people are into, we’ve decided to have a SALE, starting from the 1st of January. The rules of the sale are as follows, beneath the attention grabbing heading:

ZINE SALE!

In the month of January with every $10 of zines you order you may nominate an additional zine to be added to your order, free of charge. (Orders over $20 get two, over $30 get three, you see the pattern.) Simply write the title of the zine you’d like in the ‘note to merchant’ field when checking out of paypal. Please list a couple of alternatives in case your first preference sells out. (If we happen to sell out of all your prefs we’ll pick a random zine for you – first in, first served.) Remember that the sale begins on the first of January, so keep yr hats on till then!

Also, in January I’m gonna be hosting a couple of zine workshops at Blacktown City Libraries. Here are the details:

Jan 10 – Stanhope Gardens library

Jan 12 – Mt Druitt library

and on Jan 18 Vanessa Berry will be hosting a workshop at Blacktown library

All workshops are from 1-3pm and are for 13 to 18 year olds, but if you’re a year of two older – or younger – you’re welcome to come too, but you must book by calling the relevent library. Check out the Blacktown Library website for more info.

The structure of the workshops that I’m doing will be a brief lowdown on what zines are and then an ideas brainstorming/zine making session – you can bring along stuff you’re already working on or try to make something from scratch (typewriter, collage materials, scissors, glue and photocopier provided) or just hang out and read some cool zines from my collection! To coincide with this I think they’re tying to organise a zine display in the library, too, but I’ll get back to you on that.